Google switching to Solaris?!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 09:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > On Friday 22 September 2006 02:53, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> Or you could just install your favorite linux distro and
> >> effectively get the same functionality with 90% less pain & suffering.
> > Agreed!  Solaris is really weak on packaging.  Think Red Hat packaging 8 years
> > ago...  OpenSolaris could really benefit from their maintainers strapping
> > something like APT on to it.
> 
> Actually, think Solaris  :)
> The Solaris packaging format is actually quite similar to Slackware in a 
> lot of ways.  Make what you like of that.

Is it the pkgadd system? 

> > Usability as a Linux guy?  Let's just say that the hallways must be made for
> > midgets, because I *KEEP BANGING MY HEAD ON THINGS*
> > No, I'm not frustrated... really I'm not.
> >
> > From an ASM level, Solaris/x86 is an intriguing beast, but many of you
> > probably don't care about the stack being lower in virtual memory than
> > the .text segment.
> 
> Pretty much.  Sun still hasn't realized that other than the server folks, 
> no one cares about this stuff.

My biggest interest would be network latency and then general kernel to
process latency. Any feelings for that compared to a, say, 2.6.16 Linux
kernel?

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Roger Oberholtzer